Return to the Alien Highway with Heather Taddy & Chuck Zukowski

Summary

Ryan Sprague revisits Travel Channel's Alien Highway with hosts Chuck Zukowski and Heather Taddy, going episode by episode through their field investigations of UFO flaps, cattle mutilations, alleged Roswell debris caches, and Skinwalker Ranch. The hosts share behind-the-scenes footage and stories that never aired, including a drone that could not find the ground inside a mysterious circle, a 'mechanical' underwater sound recorded off Malibu, and a hollow-sounding cave complex near the Roswell debris field. Zukowski also describes a game-camera clip of a dog-like creature that seems to appear out of thin air near Skinwalker Ranch, which he says he still cannot debunk.

Key takeaways

• 1In Piedmont, Missouri (site of a 1973 UFO flap), a circle on a ranch allegedly caused EMF meter spikes, reset a $70,000 RED camera, and stopped a drone's auto-landing sonar from detecting the ground.
• 2Zukowski claims soil inside circles found beneath mutilated cattle in Colorado, Missouri, and Georgia showed changed cation exchange capacity (CEC) and nutrients, and that carcasses show signs of being dropped with no bounce.
• 3Zukowski says he found Roswell debris in 2000 that Bigelow Aerospace first called an 'unknown polymer' (aluminum-silicon alloy with traces of titanium), then a year later called 'nothing'.
• 4An informant's map, checked with researcher Don Schmitt and Mac Brazel's granddaughter Fawn Fritz, pointed to a cave complex about three miles from the Roswell debris site, where Roswell crash debris was allegedly hidden.
• 5The Area 51 episode followed a story that an alien nicknamed 'EBE' was helped to escape and transferred between vehicles near a bar in Warm Springs, Nevada, a story Zukowski says inspired the movie Paul.
• 6Zukowski says a Ute elder told him, off camera, that the Ute have a generations-old word for gray aliens, and the team filmed pulsing orange light with a white beam near Skinwalker Ranch.

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Aug 3, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.